Let's see...W. Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and now Arizona. I see a trend. Too bad it didn't happen 10 years ago when I was the rep for my school. Maybe then the newer teachers would have had more of a spine if they saw their peers striking in other states.

That would make five.

I hope it continues and more follow their lead...waaaaaaay past time for adequate pay and funding for educators. Betsy Davos certainly won't be doing the profession any favors.

Some 500 Colorado educators converged on the capitol building in Denver Monday demanding increased school funding and higher wages. The teachers chanted: “You left me no choice, I have to use my teacher voice!”

All classes in the Denver-area Englewood school district were cancelled as more than 150 teachers from the district walked out of class to attend the annual Colorado Education Association’s lobby day.

The wave of teacher walkouts has mostly occurred in states with Republican governors and Republican-controlled legislatures, including West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona and Kentucky. Colorado, however, has a Democratic governor and the Democrats control the lower legislative house, the Assembly. The conditions facing teachers and students, however, are no better than in Republican-controlled states, demonstrating that the assault on public education and the wages and conditions of educators is a bipartisan policy.

Teachers massed outside the doors to the capitol building Monday afternoon. They attended a Finance Committee hearing on SB 200, a bill that would cut public employee retirement benefits to shore up PERA, the state retirement plan.

cont. at https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/04/17/colo-a17.html

All public educators have been working under increasingly poor conditions for decades. No wonder there is so much outrage. It has been building for a very long time.

Their parents should have been marching to the polls long ago, instead of buying items on the teachers' disgraceful "we need, can you help" lists.

The country that pays its teachers the most, Denmark (whose teachers earn as much as doctors) has the highest academic outcomes of any country.

NY is highest in teacher salaries in the US ; Schools rank 20th nationwide.


https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-the-best-schools/5335/

https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/states-highest-lowest-teacher-salaries.html/?a=viewall

They have been taking money from schools and teachers for decades, and always rank at the bottom of the list for school funding and outcomes. I was a teacher here in AZ, and I know. Go teachers, go.

accountable! Yay!

thieves being AZ government.